Bavarian BB II

The locomotives of Class BB II were wet steam locomotives of the Mallet type of the Bavarian State Railways.

They have been specially developed for the Bavarian branch lines with tight curves and comes in two contract sections. The first lot consisted of 29 locomotives. These were made 1899-1903 by Maffei. The second contract section consisted of two machines. This came in 1908 to the state railway and were a bit longer and heavier than the locomotives of the first production batch.

Although the German Reichsbahn 1925 all vehicles took over as series 987, they were turned off and scrapped due to their unsatisfactory runnability in the 1930s up to three copies. The remaining vehicles found after 1940 as the work of locomotives further use.

A copy of, 98 727, 1943 sold to the Regensburg plant Südzucker AG, where he received the operation number 4 as well as the nickname "Sugar Susie". It was in 1972 the railway museum Darmstadt- Kranichstein donated and will have operational to this day.

Two locomotives were sold to Austria, where they were used as Werkloks in the Vorarlberg Illwerke or at VÖEST in Linz.